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Opening up government through open data standards

Posted by: John Adams and Warren Smith, Posted on: 18 January 2017 - Categories: Open standards

The Open Standards Board has adopted two new standards. We invited the standard champions to talk about the benefits of their chosen standards and ways in which they complement each other.

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What’s Up With Open Standards?

Posted by: Lawrence Greenwood and Terence Eden, Posted on: 4 November 2016 - Categories: Open standards

Catch up with the work the Open Standards team have been doing to streamline the processes we have, so we can better support the community and get a clearer picture of what works and what doesn’t.

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An open standard that can save lives

Posted by: James Findlay, Posted on: 23 May 2016 - Categories: Open standards, Technology news

James Findlay, Chief Information Officer for HS2, blogs about an emergency services open standard that will transform the way emergency responders share information and will hopefully save lives.

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Making job adverts more open

Posted by: Liam Maxwell and Dan Appelquist, Posted on: 18 May 2016 - Categories: Open standards

In the Open Standards Board, we've been thinking about jobs: how they’re posted and how people find jobs they might want to apply for in the digital age. So we took up the challenge to find a well-used metadata schema for publishing vacancies online.

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